Pest Control in Fort Worth, TX

Pest Extermination Solutions for Homes & Businesses Throughout the Fort Worth, TX Area

All-Safe Pest & Termite has run routes through Fort Worth since 1984, and we do it from a Fort Worth office, not from the other side of the metroplex. Technicians are out every weekday in Tanglewood and Overton Park, the TCU and Westcliff streets, Fairmount and Ryan Place, Arlington Heights and Ridglea, Wedgwood and Candleridge, and the newer neighborhoods along the Alliance corridor and out toward Eagle Mountain Lake, so a same-day visit is usually possible and next-day is the norm. We're family-owned, the largest independent pest control company in the area, and we hold an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau along with thousands of five-star reviews from Tarrant County homeowners.

Fort Worth is two cities as far as pests are concerned. West of the Trinity, the ground is shallow clay over limestone, which is why striped bark scorpions and rock-loving pests turn up in Ridglea, Benbrook and the new construction along Chisholm Trail Parkway. East and north of downtown, the sandy Cross Timbers soil drains fast, cicada killers dig in it every July, and the irrigated edges of lawns are where fire ants and subterranean termites both set up. Running through the middle is the Trinity and its trails, with mosquito pressure that starts in April and doesn't quit until the first cold front. The 1920s pier-and-beam homes in Fairmount and Ryan Place have crawl spaces; the 1950s to 1970s slab ranches in Wedgwood and Westcliff have foundation movement and brick weep holes; the subdivisions north of Loop 820 have builder gaps and new sod. We know which of those you live in before we knock.

Businesses get the same local knowledge. Restaurants in the Stockyards and along Magnolia Avenue, offices downtown, medical buildings around the hospital district, and the warehouses out at Alliance each get a written plan built around their inspector, their hours and their building, with service reports after every visit. There is more on our commercial pest control page.

Get professional pest control in Fort Worth today by calling (972) 945-9226 or reaching out online. The estimate visit is free, and you'll get a plain explanation and a written price before you decide anything.

A Five-Minute Walk Around Your Fort Worth Home

Most of what we find on a first visit, you could find yourself. Take five minutes and walk the outside of the house with these in mind.

• The foundation line: look for a pencil-width line of dried mud running up the brick or the pier from the soil, especially behind shrubs, under the hose bib and next to the air conditioner pad. That is a termite shelter tube, and it means they are active. Don't knock it off; leave it for us to confirm.
• The weep holes: the small gaps along the bottom course of brick, every couple of feet. Mice, crickets and scorpions use them. If you can see daylight through one from inside the garage, so can they.
• The roofline: any limb touching the roof, any gap where the fascia meets the roof deck, any gable vent with the screen pushed in. That's the roof rat route, and in Tanglewood and Westcliff it's the route nine times out of ten.
• The fence rail and the pecan tree: half-eaten pecans and snail shells lined up along the top of the fence mean rats are feeding there at night.
• The mounds: fire ant mounds that appeared after the last rain, particularly in newer sod north of Loop 820. One in the lawn is a hardware-store bait job. A dozen along the foundation is a call.
• The meter box and the patio furniture: black widows live in both. A messy, strong web low to the ground with a shiny black spider in it is exactly what it looks like.

Inside, the signs are quieter: a scratching in the ceiling right after dark that stops by the time you get to the attic ladder, rice-sized droppings in the garage or behind the water heater, a dark brown roach in the shower drain after a summer storm, or small tan roaches behind the fridge, which is a different problem with a different fix. If any of those sound familiar, that is the call. If none of them do, you probably don't need us this month, and we'll tell you so.

The Fort Worth Pest Calendar

Fort Worth's pests run on a schedule, and so do our routes. This is what drives the calls we take from Tarrant County addresses, in the order the year delivers them.

Termite swarms, late February through May

Eastern subterranean termites swarm on the first warm, still days after a spring rain, usually in the daytime. Dark, rice-length swarmers around a window, or a scatter of shed wings on a sill or a patio, is the one termite sign most people see. A swarm from a stump in the yard is a reason to inspect, not to panic. A swarm coming out of a wall or a door frame is a call the same day. On the pier-and-beam streets south of downtown, the crawl space is the weak spot; on the slab neighborhoods, it's the damp soil that soaker hoses keep against the foundation all summer. Treatment on an active house is usually a liquid barrier at the foundation and, where it fits, a bait system around the perimeter. If you'd rather not wait for signs, the UltraPlus plan installs the colony elimination system and inspects with an infrared camera on the first visit. See our Fort Worth termite control page for how we inspect.

Mosquitoes, April into October

Two mosquitoes, two answers. The one biting your ankles at three in the afternoon is the Asian tiger mosquito, breeding in a plant saucer, a clogged gutter or a French drain within a hundred yards of you. The one out at dusk is the southern house mosquito, the West Nile carrier, breeding in the storm drain and the neglected pool, and the reason Tarrant County Public Health traps and tests through the summer. The county sprays the right of way; it doesn't touch the ivy, the deck and the fence line where adults rest during the day. That's what our mosquito control service treats, on a schedule from April through October. If you back onto the Trinity Trails, Marine Creek, Sycamore Creek, Lake Worth or Eagle Mountain Lake, expect more pressure than a house in the middle of Wedgwood, and expect us to say so.

Fire ants and wasps, May through September

Fire ant mounds pop after every heavy rain, worst on disturbed ground and new sod. We bait rather than blanket-spray, because bait travels back to the queen and spray doesn't, and every Pest365 plan includes exterior fire ant control. Paper wasps are building under eaves by March and yellow jackets are in the ground and in wall voids by midsummer; both are at their most defensive in September. The two-inch wasp digging holes in a sandy east-side lawn in July is a cicada killer, which looks terrifying and is almost harmless, and the black-and-white one building a football-shaped paper nest in a live oak is a bald-faced hornet, which is not. Our Fort Worth wasp control page covers both, and how we take a nest down.

Roof rats, October through February

When the nights cool, roof rats move from the pecans and live oaks into the attics of Tanglewood, Ridglea, Westcliff and every other established neighborhood with a canopy. Scratching overhead at dusk, droppings in the garage, greasy rub marks on a beam. Our Fort Worth rodent control approach is exclusion first: find the entries at the roofline and the weep holes, seal them properly, then trap and remove what's inside. Sealing without removal traps rats in the walls; removal without sealing means the next family moves in by Christmas.

Our Pest Management Process: What Happens When You Call, and What It Costs

We don't quote a flat price over the phone, because the price depends on the size of the lot, what we find, and whether you want a one-time treatment or an ongoing plan. Quoting before we've seen the house means either overcharging a small one or coming back to renegotiate on a big one. What we can tell you is exactly how it goes.

• Complete property inspection: a state-certified technician walks the outside first, because that's where almost every Fort Worth pest problem starts. Foundation line and weep holes, roofline and soffits, fence line and any limb touching the house, irrigation and mulch depth against the brick, then the interior with you, looking at what you've actually been seeing.
• A plain explanation and a written price: what's happening, what it will take to stop it, and what that costs, in writing, before anything is scheduled. No pressure to sign that day.
• Initial service: a full interior and exterior treatment, usually the same visit or the next available one. Same-day is often possible for active problems.
• Exterior barrier and ongoing visits: after the first service, most Fort Worth homes stay clear with exterior treatments, and the interior stays under warranty. If something shows up inside between visits, we come back and treat it at no charge. That is the All-Safe Service Guarantee.

Pest365 covers the general pests, exterior fire ant control, exterior spider web removal and exterior rodent baiting. UltraPlus adds the termite colony elimination system, termite baiting, a termite service warranty and the infrared camera inspection. Both are billed monthly. Our Pest365 Pest Control Plans starts at $49.99/mo. UltraPlus Pest & Termite starts at $69.99/mo.

What You Can Handle Yourself, and What You Can't

Here's the honest version. A single fire ant mound in the open lawn is a granular bait from the hardware store, put down in the evening when the ants are foraging. A paper wasp nest the size of a golf ball under an eave can be knocked down with a hose in the morning while the workers are out. A wolf spider in the tub in October is a cup and a piece of paper. A few American cockroaches after a storm usually means a dry drain trap somewhere; run water in the unused shower and the guest bath sink once a week and it often stops. None of those need a truck.

What you can't do with store-bought products is a termite job, because the products that reach a colony aren't on the shelf and the ones that are push termites sideways to a spot you can't see. You can't fix a roof rat problem from the ground, because the entry is at the roofline and the traps have to go where the rats already travel. And you can't spray your way out of a German cockroach problem, because spray scatters them into the next cabinet and the eggs hatch behind it anyway. Those three are the calls, and on the first visit we'll tell you which one you have and which ones you don't.